ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship

ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship
The ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a match with a predetermined outcome. The Elite ("Hangman" Adam Page & The Young Bucks) are the current champions in their second reign as a team.
History
The title was officially announced in a press release on August 30, 2016, and marked the first new title created by ROH in six years, following the 2010 creation of the ROH World Television Championship. ROH promoted the title as the first time in nearly 25 years that a major American promotion had had a six-man tag team title.
The championship belts were redesigned in New Year’s day of 2018.
Inaugural championship tournament (2016)
The tournament to crown the inaugural ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions took place between September 30 and December 2, 2016. The tournament featured participants from the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotions, both of which ROH had partnerships with. ROH noted how six-man tag team matches were a staple of Mexican lucha libre and how NJPW had recently created its own six-man tag team championship, the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. Lio Rush was originally announced for the tournament, but ended up being replaced by NJPW wrestler Kushida. However, Rush eventually returned to the team, replacing ACH in the final due to his departure from ROH. The tournament started on September 30 at the All Star Extravaganza VIII pay-per-view (PPV), with the remaining first round and semifinal matches taking place at the October 1 and 29 tapings of the weekly Ring of Honor Wrestling program. The final of the tournament took place at the Final Battle PPV.
Participants
A. C. H./Lio Rush, Jay White and Kushida
The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) and Kamaitachi
The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) and Toru Yano
Bullet Club (Adam Cole, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)
The Cabinet (Caprice Coleman, Kenny King and Rhett Titus)
Jason Kincaid, Leon St. Giovanni and Shaheem Ali
The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia)
Team CMLL (Hechicero, Okumura and Último Guerrero)
Belt designs
The Original design of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (2016–2018) is similar to the WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championships but with different wording on both the center and side plates, different coloring and slightly different shaping of the title, sort of how the original ROH World Television Championship design was from years 2010 to 2012 was and also how the ROH TV titles second design from years 2012 to 2017 was as well but separating the belt from the other two the belt is slightly wider with two squares on the sides plate of the center piece.
Reigns
There have been 15 reigns shared among 11 teams and 29 wrestlers. The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) were the inaugural champions and they have the record with the most reigns at three as a team, while individually Vinny Marseglia/Vincent has the most reigns with four.
The Elite ("Hangman" Adam Page and The Young Bucks - Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) are the current champions in their second reign as a team. Individually, this is the second reign for Page and third for the Bucks. They defeated Mogul Embassy (Brian Cage and Gates of Agony (Kaun and Toa Liona)) in Flushing, New York at AEW Grand Slam on September 20, 2023.
References
External links
ROH Six Man Tag Team Title History at Cagematch.net
Ring of Honor championships
Trios wrestling tag team championships
World professional wrestling championships